Garrett School

Memories of Mary Ruth (Pollard) Brown

 I feel my experience as a youngster growing up on a farm four miles south of Middle Grove was quite different than those living on a farm today. My family consisted of my parents, Charley and Lizzie Pollard and my brother, Walter Lee.

Walter Lee and I rode our ponies 2 ½ miles down a dirt road and across Judah Bridge to Garrett School. There, we learned the 3 R’s.

I was a teacher at Garrett School from the fall of 1940 to the spring of 1949. I also did the janitor work. One winter morning I was getting ready to start the fire and found that the grate in the stove was broken. I used corn cobs to get the fire started, then added buckets of coal. The broken grate was never replaced, due to lack of funds.